Wildfires in Ghana
Situation over the last 30 days
111 fires detected in Ghana over the last 30 days, totalling 12,378 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 21 at 04:18 PM.
The savannas in Ghana burn every dry season, over huge areas but with fast, low-intensity grass fires, largely lit for farming and grazing. Detections are numerous; destructive forest fires are rare.
- Grand Accra (GH)from October 1 at 03:50 PM to October 19 at 05:46 PM1,255 ha
- Grand Accra (GH)from October 1 at 03:31 PM to October 3 at 03:57 PM796 ha
- Région Orientale (GH)from September 30 at 03:14 PM to October 5 at 03:55 PM476 ha
- Brong Ahafo (GH)from October 15 at 02:51 PM to October 20 at 03:40 PM380 ha
- Région Occidentale (GH)from October 1 at 02:53 PM to October 5 at 03:55 PM342 ha
- Brong Ahafo (GH)from October 16 at 03:50 PM to October 20 at 04:16 PM319 ha
- Volta (GH)from October 14 at 03:53 PM to October 17 at 03:31 PM288 ha
- Grand Accra (GH)from October 1 at 02:53 PM to October 2 at 03:32 AM287 ha
- Ashanti (GH)from October 11 at 03:00 AM to October 11 at 04:41 AM278 ha
- Grand Accra (GH)from October 2 at 03:12 PM to October 3 at 05:29 PM277 ha
- Région du Centre (GH)from September 30 at 04:10 PM to October 2 at 04:16 PM245 ha
- Région Orientale (GH)from October 1 at 02:53 PM to October 2 at 03:31 PM235 ha
- Région Occidentale (GH)from September 30 at 03:14 PM to October 3 at 05:29 PM230 ha
- Volta (GH)from October 13 at 03:25 PM to October 18 at 03:31 PM183 ha
- Haut Ghana oriental (GH)from October 19 at 03:14 PM to October 21 at 04:18 PM169 ha
- Volta (GH)from October 1 at 02:53 PM to October 1 at 03:50 PM168 ha
- Région du Centre (GH)from September 23 at 02:59 PM to September 24 at 04:22 PM142 ha
- Région Occidentale (GH)from September 30 at 03:14 PM to October 1 at 02:53 PM141 ha
- Volta (GH)from October 1 at 02:53 PM to October 2 at 03:12 PM139 ha
- Volta (GH)from September 30 at 03:14 PM to October 3 at 03:57 PM131 ha
- Grand Accra (GH)from October 12 at 03:25 PM to October 15 at 10:37 AM129 ha
- Volta (GH)from October 17 at 03:31 PM to October 21 at 03:21 PM123 ha
- Région du Centre (GH)from October 17 at 03:31 PM to October 19 at 03:14 PM117 ha
- Ashanti (GH)from October 15 at 03:31 PM to October 21 at 04:16 PM111 ha
- Région du Centre (GH)from September 30 at 04:10 PM to October 2 at 03:31 PM108 ha
- Volta (GH)from September 30 at 03:50 PM to October 2 at 03:31 PM102 ha
- Ashanti (GH)from October 10 at 04:01 PM to October 11 at 03:44 PM102 ha
- Ashanti (GH)from October 18 at 03:05 AM to October 18 at 04:28 AM97 ha
- Volta (GH)from October 17 at 03:31 PM to October 21 at 03:21 PM96 ha
- Ashanti (GH)from October 1 at 02:55 PM to October 1 at 03:53 PM95 ha
- 5.79°N, 0.15°Efrom September 25 at 03:44 PM to September 26 at 03:44 PM95 ha
- Haut Ghana occidental (GH)from October 16 at 03:14 PM to October 17 at 03:31 PM94 ha
- Région Orientale (GH)from October 19 at 03:57 PM to October 21 at 04:16 PM94 ha
- Grand Accra (GH)from October 14 at 02:49 PM to October 14 at 03:50 PM92 ha
- Région du Centre (GH)from September 30 at 03:50 PM to October 3 at 03:57 PM88 ha
- Région Orientale (GH)from September 30 at 03:14 PM to October 2 at 03:31 PM86 ha
- Volta (GH)from October 19 at 03:57 PM to October 20 at 03:40 PM84 ha
- Volta (GH)from October 2 at 03:12 PM to October 4 at 03:38 PM83 ha
- Grand Accra (GH)from October 18 at 04:11 AM to October 20 at 03:52 AM83 ha
- Grand Accra (GH)from October 1 at 02:53 PM to October 2 at 03:31 PM81 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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